One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott Card

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feather

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
Max von Sydow

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
Anthony Trollope

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
Philip Guedalla

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
Jonathan Carroll

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot

Polite conversation is rarely either.
Fran Lebowitz

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
Naomi Weisstein

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
Nicholson Baker

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.
Tom Skerritt